Cyanotype toning using natural botanicals with Annette Golaz: Sept 3-6, 2025
We are thrilled to be able to offer this four-day workshop with Annette Golaz that will teach the participants the techniques for using natural botanicals to tone cyanotypes. This class is by nature (literally) one that will engage the students in a creative exploration of the techniques for altering the color of cyanotypes using natural materials.
The first two days of the class will be used in making prints with the cyanotype process and making color changes to these prints using a range of natural materials.
The final two days, we will explore the techniques needed to make multiple-layer cyanotype prints. This learning process will culminate with tri-color cyanotypes using color separation negatives made from full-color images using the amazing techniques that were created by Annette.
This is a four-day workshop that will allow the participant plenty of time to understand and master the process. The cost of this class includes all materials needed to make beautiful prints.
This class is limited to 5 participants.
General workshop policies and information can be found here.
Her website showing some of her amazing work is here.
Annette lives in Switzerland, and the following is the artist's statement from her website:
I experiment with a variety of 19th-century photographic processes like gum, platinum/palladium, salted paper, and cyanotype printing, plus more modern, outdated cameras, for example, a 25-year-old Apple digital device with 0.3 megapixels. I researched the toning of cyanotypes with botanicals and developed a new tricolor cyanotype process. Based on these findings, I authored the book “Cyanotype Toning: Using Botanicals to Tone Blueprints Naturally” in the Routledge series on Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography. In my work, I capture the poetry of everyday life and the beauty of nature, often consisting of contrasts and conflicting layers. I have exhibited my work in Switzerland, the USA, and China.
